A lot of folks were out partying and carrying on the other night when the news of Bin Laden's death was received. Personally, I will not miss him one iota, but a few of us managed to keep our emotions in check enough to actually think a bit. The Super Bowlish after party going on in the background on CNN prompted me to post this on Facebook: “I'm glad he's gone but I don't dance on graves.”

Of course, folks like me who don't toe the party line are clearly unpatriotic.  Sound familiar?  One commenter said that not only would he dance on Bin Laden's grave if he could, he'd drink a case of beer and piss on it too because he was a real flag waving American.  What a proud day for the land of the free.  Kudos to whoever had the foresight to bury him at sea. 

Thing is, you'd think we'd won the wars and all our troops were coming home by the way some patriotic Americans are acting. If you understand that this really doesn't change much in regard to the wars, you're getting at least part of the point but not all of it. The ugly truth is, we're losing and Bin Laden's death doesn't change that.

In typically myopic fashion, most Americans never understood that living or dying was never germane to winning or losing. We were lured into a situation where we lost thousands of American lives and depleted our wealth and that, my friends, was the goal of the 9/11 attacks.  

Meanwhile back at the ranch, the same branch of dimwits that mishandled virtually everything about the so-called war on terror have been emboldened enough to go after unions, dismantle our public schools (because they prefer us stupid), and turn a blind eye to our rampant unemployment situation while throwing 600 million dollars a week at a new war in Libya.

Just because the man is dead, doesn't mean he isn't winning. The intent was to bring us to our knees and if we aren't there yet, we're certainly listing badly. You'd think we'd get that by now because rebels been rebels since I don't know when. Bin Laden wasn't the first wild-eyed pistol waver who ain't afraid to die.

What Bin Laden's death does mean is that the right has lost their pretext for these stupid wars. Now is the time for thinking people shout loud and clear and often to bring our troops home. It's time to step up the pressure on the powers that be.

If Bin Laden's death meant an end to our determination to self-destruct, I'd not only dance on it, I'd fuck his rotting corpse. Instead, I can only shout BRING OUR TROOPS HOME!  That's about all that's left to us now.